When multiple explanations exist, the simplest is usually correct.

The woman dashed up the staircase toward the library's main doors. Arriving at the top of the stairs, she grabbed the handle and tried desperately to open each of the three giant doors. The library's closed, lady. But the woman didn't seem to care. She seized one of the heavy ring-shaped handles, heaved it backward, and let it fall with a loud crash against the door. Then she did it again. And again. And again. Wow, the homeless man thought, she must really need a book.

I didn't understand how funny this play Much Ado About Nothing truly was until I became an English teacher and had to teach it. There is no wittier dialogue anywhere.

Since the beginning of time, spirituality and religion have been called to fill in the gaps that science did not understand.

But who is more ignorant? The man who cannot define lightning, or the man who does not respect its awesome power?

Sometimes a legend that endures for centuries... endures for a reason.

Futurists don't consider overpopulation one of the issues of the future. They consider it the issue of the future.